Definition: old, aged
The root is the Latin “sen,” which means “old,” which is also where we get “senile” from.
In Information Hunters, which discusses a request for a pension:
It has “a slightly crackpot (or senescent) air of plaint and persecution.”
The implication is that the requestor was either crazy or senile.
This is a history book that answers the question: what did librarians do to help the war effort during World War II? Well, a lot it turns out. They amassed foreign periodicals and scoured them for intelligence information They captured and cataloged information left behind in German facilities…
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